Faraway, So Micro

I haven’t been lied to this confidently since my kid told me they had fully cleaned the bathroom this week. Descript’s AI vibe editor has got a bit of room for improvement. 😆

For those of us who hear about these things weeks or months after the fact: here’s the sketch where “Do it lady” came from when you suddenly hear random people saying it. 😆

I’m sure there’s a way I could do this better, but lately all my requests to Claude AI begin with “Don’t ask questions, make this into a markdown linked list”.

I feel like I’m trying to convince it to do crimes.

Can a human live on cinnamon toast crunch cereal alone? We’ll check back with my kid in late August and see how he’s surviving.

It’s not a well known story, but Coldplay’s Chris Martin started writing “Fix You” because he was trying to upload a video to YouTube, but it was taking forever to process.

🎶 “When you try your best, but you don’t succeed…” 🎶

brb overdosing on watermelon

The rate at which the apps I use for editing keep leapfrogging each other is kind of dizzying. I’m back in Descript pretty heavily with a client and it’s gotten so much better than even 6 months ago. (The AI vibe editing is hot garbage though.)

New blog post: Ghost Comments Strike Again

I have a spam comment on my Ghost blog. I reported it (to myself) and got an email from Ghost saying “This comment will remain visible until you choose to remove it, which can be done directly on the post.” but I don’t see any option to remove it. (I’m logged in.) I’m missing something.

If you were wanting some Elgato gear on Prime sales, but missed out due to no stock, Elgato’s website has the pricing with stock on some items for another day or two. I’m going to try out the Stream Deck + XLR dock to see if I like it.

Now that DMs on most platforms have AI quick responses, it’s pretty easy to just get two bots talking to each other. And on the off chance it’s a human scammer, even better!

On one hand, TikTok is potentially a data collection privacy nightmare. On the other hand, we’d never get this kind of video as a valid form of marketing in 2025 without TikTok.

Imposter syndrome + struggling with self esteem is hearing someone talk about a thing you think you’d be great at, but then having a voice fill your head so fully with “Nope! As if! You?!”, that you delete the email you were drafting.

New blog post: Building a Gaming PC in 2025 Takes a Community

Anyone out there using Craft for Notion-like documents and tasks?

New blog post: Breaking Down and Rebuilding The Edge’s Work on U2’s The Wire #U2